.::Ignatius::.
This week has brought lots of stuff including my final Annual Review & Assessment (which I passed!). Two girls from Arizona stayed here over the last weekend and it was fun travelling around Scotland a bit, especially to places I hadn’t been in a while like Loch Lomond. Spring is here and Easter is less than a week away! This week I am journeying to Belfast in Northen Ireland as well as Dublin in Eire for a few days and it should be good banter (or I think the Irish word would be ‘craic!’ I’m probably wrong though lol0.
Anyway the topic of this post is…youth workers! I’ve talked to a few over the past few years that maybe feel a bit out of place with young people or ‘not cool enough’ as a friend put it. I mean, I’m sure that thought has drifted through my head before but at the end of the day, I know I’m doing what God’s called me to do and it’s been a good experience overall, in fact quite the adventure!
I stumbled across this video however, about ‘Ignatius’, a fictional youth pastor. Well, maybe he’s not so fictional after all, after watching the video, I was reminded of a few people a bit like him, and some of the stuff that came up in the video, I’ve heard in real life. It’s really really good and well worth ten minutes to watch it (it goes by fast and is quite encouraging). We don’t need nice haircuts (ok, maybe I do sometimes haha, I don’t spent more than £15 ever – I promise), amazing technology, a Bible college degree, or cool clothes to be a ‘cool’ effective youth minister. We need a love and passion for young people, a desire to see them grow and develop into all that they can be and reach their full potential which includes discovering their identity in Christ. I think that there is a foundation for a great youth minister. There’s probably more to it, but I’m a bit tired right now, so I’ll leave you to watch the video, it’s really well done, and quite satirical. It reminded me slightly of ‘the office’.
So is this really off the mark? I found it quite hilarious – but a bit freaky as there are those type of people out there. Someone I know from Arizona recently remarked online that a pastor friend of his met with a highly influential youth minister / development guy to ask him a few questions over lunch and the fee for the consultation was to be nearly $8000 (approx £6500). I found that appalling (and I’m sure the pastor did too! I liked Ryan G’s comment about the minister putting a ‘Saddle’ on his ‘Back’ to ride him out into the ‘Fields’ if you get the joke…ICC people should anyway lol). Anyway, let’s be the change. As we are. As an ordinary messy person, the Ignatius video makes me feel much better! Hope you were encouraged too.
